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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1995)
J anuary 11, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver P age C20 King 1958 King, along with Roy W ilkins of the NAACP, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Granger, meets with Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. King is arrest on a charge of loitering (later changed to "failure to obey an officer”) in the vicinity of the M ontgomery Recorder’s Court. He is released on $100 bond. King is convicted after pleading “not guilty” on the charge of failure to obey an officer. The fine is paid almost immediately, over Dr. King s objection, by Montgomery Police Com m issioner Clyde C. Sellers. King' s book Stride Toward Free dom: The Montgomery Story is pub lished by Harper & Row. King is stabbed in the chest by Mrs. Izola Curry, 42, who is subse quently alleged to be mentally de- Faces Arrest After Arrest In Freedom Fight The first lunch counter sit-in to desegregate eating facilities is held by students in Greensboro, N. C. A warrant is issued for King’s arrest on charges that he had falsified his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income tax returns. The Student Nonviolent Coor d in a tin g C o m m ittee (S N C C ) is founded to coordinate student pro tests at Shaw University, Raleigh, ranged The stabbing occurs in the heart of Harlem while Dr. King is autographing his recently published book. His condition is said to be serious but not critical. 1959 King meets with Walter Reuther, president of the Untied Auto W ork ers union in Detroit. Dr. and Mrs. King spend a month in India studying Gandhi’s techniques o f nonviolence, as guests of Prime M inister Nehru. N.C. 1960 The King family moves to At lanta., King becomes copastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Martin Luther King Jr. prays in jail. King is acquitted of the tax eva sion charge by an all-white jury in Montgomery. King and A. Philip Randolph announce plans for picketing both the Republican and Democratic na tional conventions. King has a conference with John F. Kennedy, candidate for president of the United States, about racial matters. Must Dream Living MS • S te g s 1» iU f : ^óBBQ js ¡f/jrïjAjsp / '-fl ,.y <z • y vk JJF ä . i l . f . ► 'J t l J**.. ,44 ^4* ► jR ir í S x á Each and every one of us must do our part. And McDonald's joins the community in dedicating ourselves to keeping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream alive As we celebrate his birthday, we recognize the fact that the man who leaves the world a better place, never leaves. 1992 M cDonalds CorpcMt'O' King is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in and is jailed on a charge of violating the state’s trespass law. The Atlantacharges are dropped. AU jailed demonstrators are released except for Dr. King, who is ordered held on a charge of violating a pro bated sentence in a traffic arrest case. He is transferred to the D eK alb County Jail in Decatur, Ga and is then transferred to the Reidsville State Prison. He is released from the Reidsville State Prison on a $2,000 bond. 1961 A third child, Dexter Scott, is born to Dr. and Mrs. King in Atlanta. The first group of Freedom Rid ers, intent on integrating interstate buses, leaves W ashington, D.C., by Greyhound bus. The group, orga nized by the Congress for Racial »
